AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Lower TDP (60W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +64%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

22

640

Shading Units

1408

40

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Cayman

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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